The reason that the conservative, Evangelical, Christian nationalist-influenced branch of the American church that has been infiltrated and blended with right wing extremism does not appear to be following the principles of the Christian gospel, as preached and taught by the life of Jesus the Christ, is that it is not now, nor has it ever been, Christian.

They are not seeking to evangelize the "lost," by those words meaning to convert individuals to the Christian gospel who are not now Christian. They are seeking to expand their political and economic power, and advance an ideology that is identifiably anti-Christian in its characteristic self-ambition, ego driven activity. It is pseudo-Christian in that it infiltrates churches and Christian institutions with its worldview ideology that looks and sounds a lot like historic, traditional Christian faith and practice. But those are just trappings. On the whole, the denominations and groups that make up what we call "Conservative Evangelicalism" in this country today, mainly the fundamentalists among the Baptists and non-denominational groups, and the tongue-talkers and faith healers among the Pentecostal/Charismatic branch of the church are not now, nor have they ever been, "orthodox" Christians, by term definition.

They are using political power to advance their agenda, identified clearly as the Project 2025 plan written by the Heritage Foundation. Lauren Boebert, in one of her recent political campaigns, articulated the aims of this plan well, inadvertently, perhaps, when she said, "the government isn't supposed to tell the church what to do, the church is supposed to tell the government what to do."

To anyone who has taken an eighth grade constitution class, that statement rings alarms bells for how unconstitutional, and ignorant, that it is. But to someone who has an ear for the Heritage Foundation's Christian nationalist ideology and agenda, that's exactly what they are looking for. And they are banking on the ignorance of a lot of Americans who know nothing about their own constitution to take them seriously.